Legal Opinion
Stevenson v. Hearst Consol. Publications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 27, 1954No. 22916_1PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINCKS, Circuit Judge.
The jurisdiction of the court below is based on diversity of citizenship, the ap-pellee (whom we shall occasionally designate as the plaintiff) being a citizen of the State of New York and the appellant (defendant below) a Delaware corporation which publishes in the City of New York a newspaper, the “New York Journal-American.”
The libel complained of was published in the following circumstances. The plaintiff’s wife, from whom he was estranged, had served, but not yet filed, a separation suit against him in the New York Supreme Court. Thereafter she filed in the New York…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Bell v. Preferred Life Assurance SocietySupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. BennettSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Stevenson v. News Syndicate Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1950
- Bucher v. KrauseCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1953
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Savino Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- Barry M. Goldwater v. Ralph Ginzburg, Warren Boroson, and Factmagazine, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler, the Hearst Corporation and Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
- Samuel Tito Williams v. The City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- Doralee Estates, Inc. v. Cities Service Oil Company, and Third-Party v. Mgo Corp. And Monticello Gas & Oil Co., Inc., Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
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